Posted on 01/12/2023 6:26:56 AM PST by Ebenezer
(Translation)
Hundreds of public employees in the healthcare and education fields demonstrated in Venezuela on Wednesday, demanding salary increases and better working conditions.
The march was named "March of the Burials", which alludes to public employees' salaries "being buried by inflation".
As it became known, active and retired employees have had to sell appliances and other goods to buy food and medicines.
According to polls taken in the country, over three quarters of the population live in extreme poverty.
Or what?
They’ll join the millions of Venezuelans streaming into the U.S.?
Oops.
The state workers are causing a stink. Private workers— no big deal, but government workers, already in your camp—not so easy. Could make for some bad optics.
The problem is, they’re out of “other people’s money.”
My son is married to a PR woman and living near the capital. He says public electricity is a problem and he has been installing generators. As to the Independent vote it seems to loose each plebecite, Statehood usually wins, but in one recent vote 1/2 million voted without making a choice. I guess you could call it the on the fence vote.
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